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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 140 points 4 months ago

Don't forget:

  • Out of control sea level rise due to climate change, which is why they all live up in the sky

  • Mutants in the lower levels

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 months ago

This I do not remember. Is this true?

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 4 months ago

Nah, I'm just outjerking the jerk.

I mean, is Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law considered canon? If so, then yep, 100% true.

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

Harvey Birdman: Mr. Boo Boo, would you consider yourself a revolutionary?

Boo Boo: Well, no. But I believe corporations rob us of our dignity and independence, and that these systems must be ripped down, or levelled by any force necessary... But that's just one little bear's opinion.

Harvey Birdman: A cute, fuzzy little bear. (smiles at jury) The defense rests

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 months ago

IIRC the canon reason they are above the clouds is because of smog.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 4 months ago

Just searched, and it looks like you're correct.

Also, apparently there's an episode where Spacely and Cogswell are arguing about real estate and they discuss a rule of Orbit City which requires all buildings to be at least 2200 feet off the ground (I assume from their "bottom"), which would make their homes roughly the top floors of the Burj Khalifa

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 12 points 4 months ago

I still like the theory that the "mutants" below are just the Flintstones. The Jetson society hoarded all the technology and moved into the sky to get away from the peasants...

[-] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago

Which still absolutely checks out for the current timeline.

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 79 points 4 months ago

Robots that dress up in a maids uniform, but are actually only used to fuck: Check

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 months ago
[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

And getting spare parts is an adventure!

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 57 points 4 months ago

George was still commuting to the office, remember.

[-] proudblond@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

Also still accurate for a lot of people, sadly.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

Hush now, you're interrupting the circlejerk.

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Teleporting will never happen, because car industry doesn't allow it.

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Yep, it's definitely the car industry and not physics.

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago
[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

TBH, I had it at 50/50 whether it was a joke or just somebody trying to make a political point.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 50 points 4 months ago

A family of 4 living in an apartment with the dad having absolutely no job security? They really did predict the future.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 32 points 4 months ago

George still had to commute to work, didn't he?

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago

Are you saying that, post pandemic, people don't commute to have meetings online?

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, I'm referring specifically to the show The Jetsons: George did not work from home despite what the meme says.

I am one of the people who commute to have meetings online btw, dumb as hell.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not the boss, just like in real life.

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 months ago

That's the whole theme song. I don't understand this meme.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago

It happened regularly throughout the series too. I'd guess whoever made the meme hasn't watched the show or hasn't watched it in 30 years and were hazy on the details.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago
[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

And we used to want them all. But capitalism prevails, and we hate it.

[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 months ago

Tbh the Jetsons was always a capitalist dystopia we were just seeing a white upper class family that benefitted from it

[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 20 points 4 months ago

Yup. Even if you ignore the theory that Earths surface is the post-apocalyptic "stone-age" setting of The Flintstones, it's still reasonable to conclude that the people in The Jetsons live in the sky because they trashed the planet.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

…the theory that Earths surface is the post-apocalyptic "stone-age" setting of The Flintstones…

I am going to have to do some research on this. So, did the rich go all Jurassic park with their infinity money to distract the masses, then when the flood waters rose, they forgot to keep the power to the containment on? Wasn’t there an episode where the Jetsons meet the Flinstones?

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 4 months ago

Their sprocket based economy next?

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

I think we call them "widgets."

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

I'm sure someone's walked their dog on a treadmill

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I think that's actually a service, somewhere. They bring the treadmill to the dogs.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Where's my damn flying car?

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 4 months ago

Fuck that, I'd rather have Penny's Computer Book.

*puts hand in pocket

Oh wait.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago

They exist but are stupid expensive.

"The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed."

-William Gibson

[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I told you to remember where you parked it.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Not even close to the 9-hour workweek.

Hence that remarkable phenomenon in the history of Modern Industry, that machinery sweeps away every moral and natural restriction on the length of the working-day. Hence, too, the economic paradox, that the most powerful instrument for shortening labour-time, becomes the most unfailing means for placing every moment of the labourer’s time and that of his family, at the disposal of the capitalist for the purpose of expanding the value of his capital. “If,” dreamed Aristotle, the greatest thinker of antiquity, “if every tool, when summoned, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it, just as the creations of Daedalus moved of themselves, or the tripods of Hephraestos went of their own accord to their sacred work, if the weavers’ shuttles were to weave of themselves, then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers, or of slaves for the lords.” And Antipatros, a Greek poet of the time of Cicero, hailed the invention of the water-wheel for grinding corn, an invention that is the elementary form of all machinery, as the giver of freedom to female slaves, and the bringer back of the golden age. Oh! those heathens! They understood, as the learned Bastiat, and before him the still wiser MacCulloch have discovered, nothing of Political Economy and Christianity. They did not, for example, comprehend that machinery is the surest means of lengthening the working-day.

marx-doomer , Das Kapital.

[-] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Eddache just did a fun video about the Jetsons

https://youtu.be/XQ9kcWioR68

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